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Harold Bloom has 66 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human…
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy…
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There is no method except yourself.
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Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,…
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Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic…
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Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.
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We can be reluctant to recognize how much of our culture was literary, particularly now that so many of the institutional purveyors…
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I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history…
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At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.
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Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes…
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days…
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Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your…
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Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless…
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You can find me on the moon waxing and waning. My heart full of petals, every single one begging 'Love me, love…
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If you want your hair to be thicker, cut it when the moon is about to be full—a heavy, full, waxing moon.…
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